Combined Locks, Wis. — Appleton Coated announces Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum selected Antique Egyptian to feature in the second in a limited series of type specimen sheets. These signed and numbered posters highlight classic typefaces, letterpress printing, and Utopia® coated papers and Curious Collection® papers.
“Antique Egyptian defined one of the most memorable messages of the American frontier: WANTED!” says Ferkó X. Goldinger, advertising and promotion manager at Appleton Coated. “The specimen sheets are printed on Utopia One Matte Blue White and SKIN Curious Collection Absynthe and Pink. These bright sheets convey the boldness of this font and print’s ability to stop you in your tracks.”
“There were earlier ornamented Egyptian fonts, but this one is special to Hamilton as it was cut in 1880s during the company’s early years in business,” notes Bill Moran, artistic director for Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. More than 130 years later, the Museum’s collection in Two Rivers, Wisconsin has grown to 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns.
Appleton Coated, a Wisconsin-based company incorporated in 1889, has seen many Hamilton fonts printed on its papers. In 2012, Appleton Coated became an official sponsor of the Museum’s type specimen sheet archiving program and documentation of its type collection.
Limited to 500 total posters, Moran printed the 9.25×19-inch specimen sheets on 100-pound cover in two colors on a Vandercook Proof Press. As curators of one of the premier wood type collections in the world, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type.
About Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
Hamilton Wood Type began producing type in 1880 and within 20 years became the largest provider in the United States. Today, the staff is assisted by volunteers from the Two Rivers Historical Society in Wisconsin who preserve this legacy and host educational demonstrations, field trips, workshops and offer opportunities with this vast wood type collection.
About Appleton Coated
Appleton Coated offers the most comprehensive line-up of premium, coated papers available today marketed under the Utopia brand. From the elegance of Premium to hardworking Utopia Three, the Utopia family of coated papers offers six ways to ignite a passion for paper and the environment. The Curious Collection of fine papers are manufactured by Arjowiggins, headquartered in Paris, France, and distributed exclusively in North America by Appleton Coated. Since 1889, Appleton Coated has been headquartered in Combined Locks, Wisconsin.
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